List of Published Stories

*Abra-Cadaver. Published in Tales from the Graveyard, January 2019.

Tales from the Graveyard: A North Bristol Writers anthology

by Peter Sutton and Eric Nash (Editors)

The sigh of troubled spirits drifts between ivy choked headstones. As the sun sets, follow the winding path between the yew trees to the place where lost souls
gather, and settle in for a night of tales both disturbing and uplifting.

A boy encounters a mysterious groundskeeper; two students unearth an ancient terror; and in the wilds of Africa, a hunter stumbles into danger. In a vision of the
future, a blackened sky unleashes creatures of the night. Closer to home, a message from beyond the grave gives a young man hope.

From the collective who brought you North by South West and The Dark Half of The Year comes a third anthology of 16 enthralling stories inspired by our many faceted
relationship with the deceased and their place of rest.

*Winternights. Published in The Dark Half of the Year, November 2016.

The Dark Half of the Year

by Ian Millsted (Editor), Pete W. Sutton (Editor)

The North Bristol Writers return with a second anthology, this time set in winter with a collection of spooky holiday tales. The
group includes many published and previously unpublished writers and the work is introduced by Cavan Scott.

My story, Winternights, goes all Nordic and apocalyptic, asking: what would happen to ghosts if there were no humans left to believe
in them?

*Beacon of Hope. 2014.

Beacon of Hope

by Maria Herring

Beacon of Hope is an inspiring and heart-warming fairy tale about good versus evil. A story of hope.

Beacon of Hope is dedicated to every person who has ever had, or been touched by, cancer. Top of Lulu’s bucket list
is to raise £10,000 for UK cancer charities. So, to give cancer patients and their loved ones even more hope we want to split all profits from this book equally between two of our favourite
cancer charities:

The first issue of eSciFi contains the following short stories: Greener Grass by Michael J. Sullivan; Who Bares The Lathe by Errick
A. Nunnally; The Space Sphinx by Edward Rodosek; The Second Law by Jordan Legg; Anne Arquey 20871223f by Maria Herring; Pixelated Nostalgia by R.A Harris; The Train Conductor by James
Zsigmond.

In this SF short, Anne Arquey lives in a post-apocalyptic world where reading and teaching has been outlawed. But she finds a strange
object in her potato field one day, and that object turns out to be a book...

Irony of Survival is the second in the Zharmae Anthology series, which takes a deeper look at survival and how
irony’s effect on it can grow into something we may, or may not, have anticipated. While we wonder to ourselves, how it managed to happen, it does.

Torny Finehair, an army doctor, gets killed on a tour of duty. Only to wake up and get killed again. And again. And
again. That's pretty much what life is like in the Hall of the Slain.

*The Bubble Juggler. Published online on cutalongstory.com,
September 2013.

*Afterglow. Published as an e-book, October 2012.

Afterglow

by Maria Herring

Death comes to us all, doesn't it ? But it can come more quickly for some than others - especially if you don't
watch where you're going! But, you'll be pleased to hear, death isn't the end. At least not if you don't want it to be. You can choose to go off and be one with the universe, but you can also
choose to stay on as a guardian angel and help someone less fortunate than yourself.

*8.02pm. Published in Chapter one promotion's, June 2012.

*Unsleeping Beauty. Published in Tales of Blood and Roses #3, 2012.

*Afterglow. Published in Voices of Angels, December 2011.

Voices of Angels

by Debz Hobbs-Wyatt (Editor), Gloria Hunniford (Foreword)

Do you believe in angels? This collection of fictional short stories explores encounters with angels – in whatever
form they take. Some stories are sad, some are funny; all will touch you. The collection includes a new story by Laura Wilkinson, author of BloodMining (winner of the Bridge House Debut Novel
Competition 2010).

A collection of five short stories, including the winner of 2011 io9.com Environmental Writing Contest! In “Beneath
It All” by Holly Day, a worm rustles through dry leaves as a man contemplates the end of his world; in “Carbon” by Jef Cozza, a scientist discovers a way to turn back the apocalypse; in “The Game
of Memory” by Thomas Kearnes, cousins play a game of Memory where the cards turn out to be more than twin suns and puppy dogs; in “Blackfriars” by Naomi Elster, the city of London is consumed by
madness; and, in “Memento” by Maria Herring, a woman wakes to find her living room destroyed and her boyfriend gone, with no memory of how it happened.